Ding-Yu Peng is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the

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. Under the direction of

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, Peng introduced a two-parameter

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now known as the

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during the 1970s while a research engineer.

Early life

Ding-Yu Peng was born in China sometime in 1943.

Education

Peng completed a degree in chemical engineering at the

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in 1966. He studied for one year at

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during 1968-1969. Subsequently, he followed Leonard I. Stiel to the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded ...

and obtained his

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in chemical engineering in 1973.

Work under Robinson

In late 1974, while working as a post-doctoral fellow under Robinson, the Natural Gas Processors Association requested a better gas model than was available at that time. Work on the

was completed in 1975, and the results were published the following year.

Teaching

Peng taught

thermodynamics Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws o ...

and

mass transfer Mass transfer is the net movement of mass from one location (usually meaning stream, phase, fraction or component) to another. Mass transfer occurs in many processes, such as absorption, evaporation, drying, precipitation, membrane filtra ...

at the University of Saskatchewan. He has been a Professor Emeritus since July 2021.

Awards

Peng earned a Doctor of Science degree in 2005. He was also the recipient of the 2006 Donald L. Katz Award by the Gas Processors Association. The award is for "outstanding accomplishments in gas processing research, and for excellence in engineering education."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peng, Ding Yu University of Saskatchewan faculty Taiwanese chemical engineers National Taiwan University alumni 1943 births Living people Syracuse University alumni University of Missouri alumni Taiwanese expatriates in Canada Taiwanese expatriates in the United States